Jonathan Martin didn’t get in anyone’s face, use physical force or run complaints up to Dolphins’ team executives.

He walked away.

Bryant McKinnie (AP Photo)

That, says Dolphins’ teammate Bryant McKinnie, was not the right way to handle the harassment Martin was subjected to by Richie Incognito and two other Miami teammates. According to the findings of the Ted Wells investigation, Martin was harassed almost daily before leaving the team in October.

“I don’t feel like ‘bullying’ is the term because nobody physically harmed him or made him do anything,” McKinnie said on SiriusXM NFL Radio. “He always had an option to say yes or no. It was never that he got bullied like he feared for his life. I just feel like he went about it the way and didn’t communicate properly with the proper people. … The players themselves thought Jonathan was laughing with them.”

McKinnie’s opinion is not isolated. There are many who believe Martin should have confronted his teammates, verbally if not physically. He could have feared being further isolated and wanted to avoid opening himself up to more crude comments — many of which, according to the investigation, included racial slurs and inappropriate sexually explicit remarks about Martin’s mother and sister.

Because his response may not be typical of NFL players, McKinnie hinted, Martin may have a hard time convincing another team to bring him on.

“Some people might look at Jonathan as, he might be too sensitive for this environment,” McKinnie said. “We don’t know if he’s emotionally stable enough to do this.”

This would suggest putting the onus on Martin to change, as opposed to players being respectful and professional.